DARKEST ROAD 3 - T'Was a Time of Dread

(Zenobi Software)



Spectrum 48K/128K+2





'Twas a time of dread. The land, once so fair, now ravaged by the greatest pestilence

since the time of the "Black Wanderer" and the "Unborn one". Three thousand years have

passed, years in which the once beautiful land has all but been destroyed.



For three thousand years nothing has been heard of the "Mysterious Stranger", but now on

a dark, wet and windy night be returns, to you, a descendent of the "Singer of the Song".

You are a mere child, still flushed with the vigour of youth, but it is to you he comes.

You who have never done anything heroic in all of your seventeen years.



The Stranger tells you that when the "Black Wanderer" sowed the seed of the "Unborn One",

so too did he sow another seed ... the one which would lie dormant until the time was ripe

for it to burst forth. As the seed lay dormant however, it matured and then mutated, it

divided and became many and called itself LEGION though it was more than just one being. It

was many, it was Legion and through its numbers would it gather strength. The multi-faceted

evil then spawned upon the land, but it spawned far to the east, far beyond the Eagleshorn,

beyond Darklen Moor, beyond the borders of the realm, in the unknown reaches of the place

known as the "Saddest Lands".



The "Mysterious Stranger" tells you that although the "Silent Song" has been lost, it too

has mutated. It has mutated within YOU ... into something more than what it was. But he

cannot tell you what. It is for you and you alone to discover. He leads you to the giant

bird Sebac, who is to carry you over the Eagleshorn to the realm of Legion and there bids

you farewell. You must now set out on the giant bird in the direction of the realm of Legion

and there do what you will to stop the evil spreading to the west .......



And so, Sebac sets you down on the "Plain of the Uninvited" and with a lingering glance in

your direction, soars into the blue sky and vanishes over the golden horizon.





NOTES



Use RAMSAVE and RAMLOAD to store a position to MEMORY but always use the standard SAVE

and LOAD to make a more permanent record to TAPE or DISK. Also remember that DICE is

the plural version and that DIE need not necessarily mean the end of the game ... hint!!!